LECHRIOPS. 107 
A very variable insect and apparently common in Mexico. It is larger and longer 
than LZ. auritus and has the vestiture coarser. The broad white band on each side of 
the prothorax and the four white spots on the elytra are sharply defined in the 
specimens from Guerrero, which may be taken as the types. The Guatemalan 
examples, some of which have the whole of the flanks of the prothorax albo-squamose, 
are mostly discoloured or partially abraded. Dr. Heller has sent me specimens from 
Mexico under the name ZL. infusus, Faust. 
33. Lechriops festivus, sp.n. (Tab. VII. fig. 2.) 
Lechriops festivus, Faust, in litt. 
Subovate, black, the elytra sometimes variegated with rufo-piceous, their apical margin, the apex of the rostrum, 
the antenne, and tarsi more or less ferruginous; the prothorax with a broad space along the sides 
(sometimes divided into two sinuous lines or reduced into a subquadrate patch at each hind angle), 
extending on to the shoulders and mesothoracic epimera, and the elytra with a rounded spot of variable 
size at the middle of the suture, and a minute spot on the eighth interstice, clothed with coarse white or 
pale ochreous scales, the disc of the prothorax with hair-like ochreous scales along the middle, the rest of 
the elytra variegated with fine cinereous, ochreous, and blackish scales, the ochreous scales clustered into 
a streak along the apical portion of the suture (extending from the white spot to the tip) and the black 
ones into a patch on the suture below the base ; the vestiture of the under surface and legs rather coarse, 
white or ochreous, the posterior femora with a dark patch. Eyes large, subcontiguous. Rostrum 
rugulose and feebly carinate at the base. Joint 2 of the funiculus a little longer than 1. Prothorax 
short, constricted in front, narrowing from the base; densely punctate and obsoletely carinate. 
Elytra short, broad, subcordate, rounded at the tip; deeply punctate-striate, the interstices slightly 
wider than the striv, rugose. Rostral canal deep, reaching into the metasternum. 
Length 22-3, breadth 13-2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (Mus. Dresden), Toxpam (Sallé), Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith), Mot- 
zorongo (Flohr), Jalapa (Hoge); GuaTEMALa, Senahu, Chacoj, San Gerénimo (Champion); 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson). 
Numerous examples, three of which have the white sutural spot small; two others, from 
Guatemala, have the white band at the sides of the prothorax reduced to a subquadrate 
basal patch. In the typical specimens, from Atoyac, &c., the sutural spot is large and 
sharply defined. JL. festivus is a form of L. auritws with relatively broader elytra 
and a more rugose surface. It has shorter elytra than LZ. infusus. The suture from the 
white spot to the apex is bordered with ochreous or fulvous scales. 
34. Lechriops paroticus. (Tab. VII. fig. 3.) 
Copturus paroticus, Pasc. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) v. p. 496°. 
Lechriops (?) paroticus, Heller, Abhandl. Mus. Dresd. no. 11, p. 68’. 
? Copturus latericollis, Jekel, in litt.’ 
Hab, Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, Caldera, 
Tolé, San Feliz (Champion).—Braziu®, Parana}. 
This insect, described from a single specimen from Parana, has a broad, dense, 
curved band of coarse pale ochreous scales on each side of the prothorax, and four 
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